Eggesford Court

Also the Court, the house, a big house in the country, the wrong house, Mr Cook’s residence, the Cookeries, Cook’s, the Cook premises

Cook's country house with a stable of racehorses, which Bertie blunders into by mistake and from which the cat is taken.

Connections

dealings

• is the home of the cat^♞︎ 2
• is owned by, is the home of Cook 2
• is visited by Bertie Wooster 1
• is refused by Billy Graham 1
• employs Marlene 1

Inside it

• the library
• the stables
• the swimming-pool

Scenes set here

1. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court
2. Cook's butler refuses to disturb his master for a tramp who smells of drains and tells the men to shut Bertie in a stable.Chapter 17, Eggesford Court, as the house

Talked about, but not there

1. Driving to see Murgatroyd, Bertie gets stuck behind the protest march and sits watching it.Chapters 1–2, as a big house in the country
2. At the cottage Jeeves tells Bertie that Plank really is in the village as Mr Cook's guest at Eggesford Court, and the shaken Bertie swaps his ginger ale for a dry Martini.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke
3. Driving home drowsy from lunch, Bertie naps in a wood and is woken by Orlo Porter, who accuses him of following Vanessa Cook to Maiden Eggesford and threatens to tear his insides out with his bare hands if he goes near her again.Chapters 6–7, the woods
4. Bertie tells Jeeves of Orlo's threat and they agree he must avoid Vanessa Cook, but Jeeves then takes a call saying she is coming round at once.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
5. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke, as the Court
6. Bertie delivers Vanessa's message to a jealous, suspicious Orlo in the inn's private bar, and Orlo cheers up only on hearing Bertie will go for a walk during the meeting.Chapter 8, the Goose and Grasshopper
7. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke
8. Bertie warns Jeeves that Cook will surely come searching, Jeeves still won't return the cat himself, and proposes hiring the poacher Graham instead.Chapter 12, Wee Nooke
9. Bertie asks Graham to take the cat back; Graham refuses, citing Angelica and his bet on Potato Chip, until Bertie haggles him up to thirty-five pounds.Chapters 12–13, Wee Nooke, as Mr Cook’s residence
10. Aunt Dahlia telephones, blasts Bertie for sending the cat back, calms down when told about Major Plank, and hears of his engagement to Vanessa Cook.Chapter 13, Wee Nooke
11. Graham reports that the cat he returned to Eggesford Court followed him back, and Bertie, seeing he could betray Aunt Dahlia to Cook, pays him another ten pounds to take it again; then Vanessa Cook walks in.Chapters 14–15, Maiden Eggesford
12. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a panic: having tipped the vicar off about the cat, she has had Jimmy Briscoe threaten to scratch Simla unless it is returned, and Bertie assures her Billy Graham is taking it back.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke
13. Billy Graham turns up, says he found Cook wrapped in a tablecloth with a picture round his neck, and refuses to go near Eggesford Court with the cat.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke
14. Creeping up to Cook's stables with the cat, Bertie falls in foul mud and loses the cat, and the barking of a friendly dog gets him caught by two stable men who take him for a horse-nobbler.Chapter 17, the stables
15. Bertie stumbles into Cook's swimming-pool and enjoys the rinse, then rescues Orlo Porter, who has fallen in fleeing the dog after Cook refused to give him his money.Chapter 17, the swimming-pool, as the house
16. Bertie sleeps fitfully, seeing that with Billy Graham, Jeeves and Aunt Dahlia all out of it, he alone must return the cat to Eggesford Court or lose Anatole's cooking.Chapter 18, Wee Nooke
17. Jeeves unties Bertie, freezes off Plank by denying he is Inspector Witherspoon, and reveals the cat is his aunt's, so Bertie sets off to put terms to Cook.Chapter 19, Wee Nooke